Harvesting Delectable New Potatoes

If you’ve planted potatoes this season, don’t miss the chance to sample some of the small, new potatoes that are probably ready right about now. New potatoes are young, sweet and tender, a treat not to be missed.

They are ready at or shortly after the potato plants have bloomed.

Harvest as you would fully mature potatoes, using a garden fork to dig down about six inches around the plant.

You can harvest by either digging up a few potato plants entirely or by minimizing the amount of disturbance to the plant by digging out only a few of the small new potatoes and leaving the rest of the plant intact through the end of the summer to grow storage potatoes.

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